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WINTER 2007 IN THIS ISSUE New Faculty • Student & Alumni Profiles • Class Notes The Magazine for the University of Minnesota Law School Double Vision, Singular Focus Two heads may be better than one, especially when they share a drive for results. The University of Minnesota is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status, or sexual orientation. INTERIM DEANS Guy-Uriel E. Charles Fred L. Morrison INTERIM DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Cynthia Huff EDITOR Scotty G. Mann COPY EDITOR Corrine Charais CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Mary Alton Shana Bachman Anita Cole Deborah Gallenberg Susan Gainen Katherine Hedin Sara Jones Cathy Madison Todd Melby Scott Russell Leslie Watson PHOTOGRAPHERS Jessica Johnson Daniel J. Kieffer Dan Marshall Tony Nelson John Noltner Tim Rummelhoff DESIGNERS Carr Creatives This is a general interest magazine published throughout the academic year for the University of Minnesota Law School community of alumni, friends, and supporters. Let- ters to the editor or any other communication regarding content should be sent to Cynthia Huff, Interim Director of Communications, University of Minnesota Law School, 229 19th Avenue South, Room 225, Minneapolis, MN 55455. [email protected] ©2007 by University of Minnesota Law School. Deans’Perspective his past fall, we had numerous opportunities to reflect on the purposes Tand goals of law and legal institutions in the 21st century. As we spent time with alumni in particular but also with faculty, students, staff, and friends of the Law School, part of our role was to articulate the Law School’s raison d’être. Too often in our culture, there is a tendency to underappreciate the impor- tant role of lawyers and the law in a free and democratic society. Lawyers are too frequently viewed as parasites who feed on society without contributing anything of value. Of course, we all know that nothing could be further from the truth. Nearly two-thirds of the delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention of 1787 were lawyers. Lawyers have a long history of commitment to certain fundamental values that sustain a free society: respect for the rule of law, freedom of speech, equality, and the presumption of innocence. Lawyers’ support of the law presents a framework for resolving private disputes, a forum for vindicating criminal offenses to persons and property, a mechanism for facilitating economic prosperity through the development of contracts and commercial transactions, and an opportunity for distinguishing relevant facts from irrelevant facts and falsehoods. And the list goes on. These values and others are lacking in many places, both in this country and around the world, and their absence is deeply felt. But when they are upheld— and that reinforcement comes primarily from lawyers—they contribute to every- thing that is admirable about a free and democratic society. As a public educational institution, the University of Minnesota Law School bears a special responsibility for inculcating these and other values into the hearts FRED L. MORRISON and minds of our students. It was not mere happenstance that the majority of the AND GUY-URIEL E. CHARLES founding fathers were lawyers. It is not simple coincidence that a large majority of our elected officials and most influential leaders are lawyers. And it is not an accident that many powerful politicians and business leaders are graduates of this very Law School. (Watch for our coverage of alumni in public office in the next issue.) Lawyers, and especially our Law School graduates, are trained to uphold the best of our society’s values, and they sometimes do so even when it is politi- cally incorrect and socially uncomfortable. Our aim at the Law School is to teach our students that we represent values beyond ourselves. Even in the mundane details of drawing up a contract, making an estate plan to pass property from one generation to another, representing an unpopular criminal defendant, passing legislation, or concluding a merger and acquisition, our vigilant attention to the law embodies the spirit behind a free and just society. The lawyer’s role is often complicated and nuanced; not everything is black and white. It is sometimes difficult, frustrating, and yes, even boring. But most important, by safeguarding cherished values, lawyers perform a noble role. Guy-Uriel E. Charles and Fred L. Morrison Perspectives WINTER 2007 1 Contents FEATURES 20 Double Vision, Singular Focus Two heads may be better than one, especially when they share a drive for results. by Cathy Madison Photography by John Noltner 25 Hedin Alcove Lightens the Load Law, literature, and the arts made more comfortable 2 1 Deans’ Perspective 4 Faculty Perspective 5 Faculty R&D March 1–October 1, 2006 Welcome Additions 14 New and returning stars add strength to the faculty Robert Stein, Thomas Cotter, Claire Hill, Heidi Kitrosser, Alexandra Klass, William McGeveran, Francesco Parisi 16 Visiting Faculty 4 David Adelman, Susanna Blumenthal, Lisa Stratton, Aleatra Williams 18 In the Wings Richard W. Painter, Chantal Thomas 19 Profile: Professor Ruth Okediji 26 At the Law School 27 War and the Law Professors Jack M. Balkin and George P. Fletcher, guest lecturers 28 Symposium on Global Response to Terrorism Post 9/11 29 Celebrating 25 Years with the University of Uppsala Faculty of Law 29 Staff Honored for their Years of Service, New Hires 32 and Other Staff Announcements 30 The Alumni-Student Connection 31 Judge Heaney Honored for Lifetime of Service 32 East Meets Midwest 33 Corporate Externship Gives Students Practical Experience 34 Interdisciplinary Lectures Schedule 35 Class of 2006 Graduation 36 Student Perspective 37 Diversity Finds a Home at the Law School Wei Li, Dan Robinson, Zainab Akbar, Laurel Kilgour 39 Raise the Bar Cleans Up 39 40 Alumni Perspective 41 Distinguished Alumni Profiles Deena Bennett, John Docherty, Wilbur Fluegel, Sumbal Mahmud, Akhar Usman 44 Joseph T. O’Neill Receives the Outstanding Achievement Award 45 Grads Gather at the New Guthrie 46 Class Notes 54 Memorial Tributes Curtis Bradbury Kellar, Richard FitzGerald 55 In Memoriam 56 Law Alumni Association Board of Directors 44 Perspectives WINTER 2007 3 Faculty Perspective ❯ Former recipients of the Julius E. Davis Chair celebrated with new Davis Chair Dale Carpenter and Mrs. Julius Davis (center). Front row: Professors Daniel Gifford, Jim Chen, Laura Cooper, Dan Burk, Brett McDonnell, Susan Wolf, Stephen Befort. Back row: Professors Brad Karkkainen, Richard Frase, Barry Feld, Dale Carpenter, Robert Levy, Oren Gross, John Matheson LAW BRIEF • 34 permanent endowed chairs/professorships LAW BRIEF • 61 full-time faculty (38% female, 18% minorities and 9 clinical faculty) • 29 affiliated faculty ❯ Dean Joan S. Howland speaking at the Hedin Alcove celebration. ❯ Professor Kevin Reitz delivering The James Annenberg Levee Land Grant Chair in Criminal Procedure lecture in October ❯ Professors Matheson, Alex Johnson, Jr. and Carol Chomsky 4 Perspectives WINTER 2007 Faculty R&D Highlights of the numerous publications, presentations, and achievements of Law School faculty. March 1–October 1, 2006 THE BENJAMIN N. BERGER PROFESSOR OF Edward S. Adams Beverly Balos Stephen F. Befort Brian H. Bix CRIMINAL LAW REAPPOINTMENT LECTURE EDWARD S. ADAMS STEPHEN F. BEFORT On Sept. 12, 2006, Richard S. Frase commemorated Professor Adams is preparing a treatise Professor Befort was elected to the Exec- his reappointment as the Benjamin N. Berger Pro- entitled The Law of Nanotechnology, utive Board of the International Society fessor of Criminal Law with a lecture entitled “Sen- intended to provide a detailed examina- for Labour Law and Social Security. He tencing Guidelines in Minnesota—Past, Present tion of relevant legal-related issues in the wrote three law review articles: “The and Future” at the Law School’s Lockhart Hall. He emerging field of nanotechnology and Regulatory Void of Contingent Work” in scheduled to be published by a leading the Employee Rights and Employee Policy was the 1988–1989 Julius E. Davis Professor of Law academic publisher in 2008. He is finaliz- Journal, “When Quitting is Fitting: The and has been the Benjamin N. Berger Professor of ing “Bridging the Gap Between Owner- Need for a Reformulated Sexual Harass- Criminal Law since 1991. ship and Control,” which considers the ment/Constructive Discharge Standard in benefits of a full-circle evaluation system the Wake of Pennsylvania State Police v. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Haverford College, of corporate management and advocates a Suders” (with Sarah J. Gorajski) in the Frase received his J.D. from the University of means for institutional investors to imple- Ohio State Law Journal, and the forth- Chicago, where he was Comment Editor of the Uni- ment such a system for companies and coming “A Perfect Storm of Retirement versity of Chicago Law Review. Before joining the thereby improve corporate accountability. Security: Fixing the Three-Legged Stool Law School in 1977, he clerked for Chief Judge of Professor Adams is also working on an of Social Security, Pensions, and Personal the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit article that addresses issues related to the Savings” in the Minnesota Law Review. Luther M. Swygert, practiced at the Chicago-based bank statement rule under Article 4 of the With Paul Gerhart, he co-edited Arbitra- Uniform Commercial Code and is draw- tion 2005: The Evolving World of Work: firm now known as Sidley Austin LLP, and was a ing up a proposal for a multi-volume Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting research associate and Arnold Shure Fellow at the publication regarding the Uniform Com- of the National Academy of Arbitrators Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at the Univer- mercial Code. published by the Bureau of National sity of Chicago Law School.